Welcoming OLE Rwanda
OLE welcomes its newest centre, OLE Rwanda. OLE Rwanda’s mission is to use Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a tool to trigger achieving quality Basic Education (in Rwanda, the first nine years of schooling) for all by 2015. Rwandan Universal Basic Education will benefit from free and open resources and successful educational models.
OLE Rwanda works in partnership with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Youth. The mission of OLE Rwanda is integrated in the Rwandan Education Sector Strategic plan 2006 - 2010 (ESSP) for basic Education. This plan also empowers young people to participate actively in the government’s poverty eradication programme (Vision 2020 Umurenge) through human capacity building projects.
OLE Rwanda has an impressive Board of Trustees led by Chairman Bizimana Muhebera. Chairman Muhebera is the Director of Library at the Kigali Institute of Education. Murinda Muzira Jacques is the new Executive Director for OLE Rwanda.
The first areas of concentration for OLE Rwanda will be the creating and describing digital content for the Rwandan education system so that it can be shared quickly and freely by teachers all over the country, and developing and deploying a peace building curriculum for basic education.
